See the full list here, and be sure to check back frequently for the latest advice from our experts. This post was updated on April 3 to note that withdrawals of Roth IRA contributions are always exempt from taxes and penalties. When it's time to take money out of your 401(k) or IRA, the magic number is 59 Ã¢Â½. That's the age at which you can withdraw money from a retirement plan without handing the IRS a 10% bonus on top of the regular taxes you will owe.
How long do solar Christmas lights stay on? The amount of time solar Christmas lights stay on, as well as how brightly they shine, depends on how much sunlight they receive and, accordingly, how much energy the batteries have stored. If the batteries are fully charged, the lights shine for about eight hours.
Put another way, LEDs use about 12% of the energy used by halogen and filament bulbs to emit the same amount of light. We can also calculate that a 50 Watt halogen spotlight produces about 600 lumens. An LED light would need to be about 6 watt in power to produce the equivalent 600 lumens produced by a 50 watt halogen. We can now see clearly that a 3 watt LED spotlight would produce 300 lumens, not 600 lumens, so definitely not equivalent to a 50 watt halogen bulb.